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A suicide car bombing near a military base in eastern Afghanistan that once hosted CIA employees killed at least 17 civilians Sunday, local officials said, the latest insurgent attack after foreign forces ended their combat mission there.

...has argued that reducing the force to 5,500 by the end of the year would disrupt efforts to train and advise the Afghanmilitary.Military leaders also worry that cutting the overall force to that degree would reduce support to the counterterrorism...

KABUL, Afghanistan - A veteran Afghanmilitary pilot said to be distressed over his personal finances...gunman was an officer who had served as a pilot in the Afghanmilitary for the past 20 years. The gunman - identified as...

...assailant was a sleeper agent who had infiltrated the Afghanmilitary. Cases of foreign troops being attacked by rogue...occupied by both Afghan and coalition troops, an Afghanmilitary official in the area said. He said the NATO service...

...logistical question about the future - who will pay for the Afghanmilitary once America leaves? The answer is not the Afghans...about Afghanistan. Tax dollars spent building an Afghanmilitary are dollars not spent toward defeating al-Qaida...

...withdrawn at the end of this year. Such a withdrawal would disrupt ongoing U.S. efforts to advise and equip the Afghanmilitary. And it could demoralize the Afghan forces and fuel the Taliban's fight.Campbell agrees that the political disarray...

...chunks of money - $11 billion for "operations and force protection" in Afghanistan and $4 billion to fund the Afghanmilitary and police forces - are clearly Afghan-war related. The same can be said for only a fraction of the remaining...

...Defense Ministry declined to comment Saturday, while officials with the presidency could not be reached.However, Afghanmilitary analyst Jawed Kohistani said the move probably will be welcomed. President Ashraf Ghani's new administration...

...Defense Ministry declined to comment Saturday, while officials with the presidency could not be reached.However, Afghanmilitary analyst Jawed Kohistani said the move likely would be welcomed as President Ashraf Ghani's new administration upon...

...next year.Dempsey told The Associated Press in an interview that the possible exit of all U.S. troops was making Afghanmilitary leaders anxious and eating away at their troops' confidence. He said he spoke with some Afghan leaders after the...